In 2010 at the Geneva Auto Show Lexus launched the model line CT with the presentation of the CT 200h, an entry-level luxury hatchback hybrid electric automobile. The model had already been presented six months before as the LF-Ch concept car.

Primarily targeted at the European market, the model was introduced to the North American markets at the April 2010 New York International Auto Show.

CT 200h production began at the end of December 2010 with European sales following shortly after. US sales began in March 2011.

Lexus is part of the Japanese group Toyota Motor Corporation. However, Lexus cars were first debuted in the United States in 1989 and were only released in Japan in 2005. Still, Lexus was the first Japanese carmaker to sell a luxury car in its home country.
It all started with a secret meeting in 1983. Toyota Chairman, Eiji Toyoda, concluded it was time to take a chance on luxury cars and summed up a top-level and to... more